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Since 1986 Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal (SGAA) has provided artificial limbs and walking aids for more than 20,000 patients and physiotherapy treatment for nearly 50,000 patients. The Halo Trust says there are still hundreds of thousands of landmines in Afghanistan, the result of 25 years of virtually uninterrupted warfare. In consequence an enormous number of Afghans have been disabled; the UN estimates 3% of the population are directly affected and 10% indirectly affected.

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Visit to Afghanistan - Oct 2011

I arrive at Kabul airport on a beautiful sunny day in October...read

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Relationships and future plans

During 2005, SGAA's Trustees and Committee decided to merge its activities with another NGO working for the disabled in Afghanistan, the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA). SCA has its headquarters in Stockholm and has been running programmes in Afghanistan since 1982 in various sectors including health, education and disability. After several months of discussions a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the two organisations in December 2005, which gave the Swedish Committee the responsibility of managing SGAA's project activities in Jalalabad and the Eastern region of Afghanistan from 01 January 2006 onwards.

SGAA continues to provide technical assistance through its Committee and consultants who now have extended their remit to cover SCA's workshops and clinics in Ghazni, Taloquan and Mazar-i-Sharif. This means SCA benefits from clinical supervision, upgrading and skills development for their disability programme and SGAA has some of the financial onus lifted from it.The £90,000 so far raised by the 2008 Sponsored walk in Bamiyan is vital in funding elements of SGAA's work that are not covered by SCA.